Till Gabbani, 78, Motion Picture Cameraman Since 1929

Till Gabbani, the camera operator for such films as “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” “The Diary of Anne Frank,” “My Darling Clementine” and “The Young Lions,” has died of leukemia in his Culver City home, his daughter said Wednesday.

Gabbani, 78, affectionately known to his friends in the motion picture industry as “Tilly,” had been battling cancer for four years and died in his sleep early Monday morning, his daughter, Janice Gick, said.

Gabbani, who “didn’t care for people gathering for mourning,” had asked his family that there be no funeral and no memorial and that he be cremated, his daughter said. “We’re going to miss him. . . . He was a man who did things his own pace, his own way,” Gick said.

Gabbani began his career as a newsreel man for Pathe News in 1929 and then went to work for 20th Century Fox and MGM Studios. In 1983, he was honored by the Society of Operating Cameramen w1769236512said.

He is survived by his wife, a daughter, three grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.